Taking Effective and Accurate Meeting Minutes

Overview

Tips for Creating Exceptional Meeting Minutes

Whether they are in person, online, or via a conference call, meetings are a necessary part of the day-to-day operations of most businesses. Meeting minutes serve as an official record of the event, and you have the critical role of creating them and ensuring that they are accurate.

You want your notes to be clear and precise, and by delivering accurate meeting minutes you gain the perfect opportunity to shine like a star.

This webinar breaks the process down into three key parts: preparing for the meeting, taking notes during the meeting, and completing the job by distributing a report after the meeting. You’ll discover specific tips for taking spot-on meeting notes and writing a concise report that provides details of what transpired.

Schedule

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What You Will Learn

This isn't a task reserved for secretaries and administrative assistants only. Any person who attends a meeting may be asked to take notes and create minutes. Accuracy is of the utmost importance.

And taking meeting minutes is one task that you are rarely formally trained to do, yet are expected to pick up right away.

How can you make your meeting minutes more effective and set yourself apart as a star employee? By taking great meeting notes and following through on the tasks and action items you were assigned. For 90 minutes, this course explores:

Before the Meeting

Tips on preparing effective templates that save you time and effort

Shortcuts for drafting an agenda that structures your minutes

Examples of useful and time-saving notes templates

Advice on creating a powerful checklist to guide your note taking

During the Meeting

How to note motions throughout the meeting

Ways to recap decisions that outline what was decided and what was agreed to

Specific words and phrases to accurately summarize discussions

Understanding when to be specific with your notes and when to summarize

Tips for noting outstanding items (what was left pending)

Three key points regarding style in writing minutes

After the Meeting

How to make quick work of correcting your notes

Tips for cleaning up and drafting the final minutes report for the official record

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About the Presenters

Christy Woods
is a business trainer who has presented seminars in cities throughout the United States and the United Kingdom with audiences comprising corporate, government, academic, and nonprofit professionals. She is an editor, book reviewer, business writing coach, and adjunct professor teaching grammar and writing for colleges in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Christy is also the founder and director of a nonprofit organization promoting meditation, mindfulness, wholeness, and wellness.

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